Show us your Arb boats

[hedgesparrow]

Boats, heres a thread I can do:thumbup:

 

Currently in the yard the 8m fishing boat, and the speedboat.

 

On the canal the diddy little canal boat!

 

R

 

what make is the fishing boat. is it a cathedral hull and is it inboard or outboard and make of engine.you are making me jealous just what i want a nice fishing boat to go out to needles but fast enough to get back if weather changes. miis my sea fishing so pecfull no phones no radio just the isle of wight rooks and the sea lapping against hull bliss

[Mayhem inc.]

There were a few mate, many drunken nights in Chatham, that's why I stayed put when I got out, still get to bump into mates that are still serving, always a good excuse for a piss up, although after 12 years the excuse is wearing a bit thin on the other half!!!!

[Guss109]

There were a few mate, many drunken nights in Chatham, that's why I stayed put when I got out, still get to bump into mates that are still serving, always a good excuse for a piss up, although after 12 years the excuse is wearing a bit thin on the other half!!!!

 

 

 

no idea how it can be wearing thin surely it's got years left in it:laugh1:

[Lee Winger]

Warrior 165 shame we haven't had better weather.............

[john k]

I've had boats of one sort or another (mostly small and unreliable!) for as long as I can remember.

 

I lived on Tequila for three years, went round Britain in just over a week in the RIB, and now have a share in this very lovely Dutch steel cruiser on the Thames. There are some more pictures on the web site: Shimmering Steel private boat share syndicate on the Thames

 

Still nothing as cool as Al Baker's portage and bivouac though

[codlasher]

Classic week-end. Danish fishing boat mid 1930's

[canoehead]

where abouts in ont. was that Al Baker? noren ont? like the temmagami wilderness area?

[canoehead]

i made this whilst living in the woods, in northern ontario a few years ago, as a guest of a family of ojibway indians, who i had befriended the previous year whilst wilderness canoeing. i made it on my own, but they helped me find all the materials and really looked after me, they made me part of their family, and really that was the more important thing, not the canoe.

 

it was made in the traditional way, with only natural materials, birch bark hull, cedar planking, and ribs, black (swamp) ash for gunnels, birch for thwarts, spruce root lashing, and bear fat and spruce gum for caulking (cooking that up it smelled like christmas). i know in the world of canoe making it isnt great, the bark had tiny pin holes and was leaky, but you could paddle it, and it was dreamy. i made it from the place i was living, it was as much a part of the woods as you could get. and thats where it is now, where it belongs, in the woods. i gave it to my friend for looking after me, it is after all an ojibway canoe, and he's an ojibway.

 

the dog in the picture was my canada dog, his name was babiche.

[rovers90]

I work one day a week for my uncle organising training courses for commercial fishermen - first aid, sea survival, engineering, navigation, etc - and I would implore anybody going out on a boat to always wear a life jacket and to do some basic training such as a sea survival course: it's only one day and £120 and could save your life. I know one instructor we use used to be a fisherman and says he wouldn't be hear today but for a simple thing as a rope hanging over the side of the trawler - he went overboard and was only able to get back on board because of the rope.

 

Here endeth the lesson.

[monkeybusiness]

i made this whilst living in the woods, in northern ontario a few years ago, as a guest of a family of ojibway indians, who i had befriended the previous year whilst wilderness canoeing. i made it on my own, but they helped me find all the materials and really looked after me, they made me part of their family, and really that was the more important thing, not the canoe.

 

it was made in the traditional way, with only natural materials, birch bark hull, cedar planking, and ribs, black (swamp) ash for gunnels, birch for thwarts, spruce root lashing, and bear fat and spruce gum for caulking (cooking that up it smelled like christmas). i know in the world of canoe making it isnt great, the bark had tiny pin holes and was leaky, but you could paddle it, and it was dreamy. i made it from the place i was living, it was as much a part of the woods as you could get. and thats where it is now, where it belongs, in the woods. i gave it to my friend for looking after me, it is after all an ojibway canoe, and he's an ojibway.

 

the dog in the picture was my canada dog, his name was babiche.

 

The single greatest post on this forum ever - you win!!! Great story and surely the ultimate arb boat IMO!